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St. Elvis Cromlech, Solva, Pembrokeshire: Double Chambered tomb

Jacquetta Hawkes writing of cromlechs in this area in the 1950s says that around St. David… the plateau of the old sedentary rocks are broken by abrupt outcrops of much harder rocks spewed up by volcano, each one will be seen to have a little farm, edged up against, it is also noted that a very considerable number of dolmens have similarly been built against the volcanic outcrops, perhaps endowed with spirits and local deities“. The St.Elvis dolmen is not built against an outcrop, but follow the farm trackway and you are well aware of the rock that lies hidden in this area.

Be that as it may, this cromlech was badly damaged by the farmer in the 18th century, he tried to blow it up, but it has survived to the present time carrying with it the remains of its stones, some of which are also said to be…

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Apropos of nothing: There is a saying, in German, “Warum in die Ferne schweifen, wenn das Gute liegt so nah?”. Roughly translated: Visit your own Hinterland first before you board a plane to Spain.

It took me some time to realize that truth. I’d go to Minstead/New Forest, say, visit the church, the graveyard (ref. Arthur Canon Doyle) yet moved from a town I’d lived in for some twenty years without having once visited St. Peter’s. Come again? Shameful. That’s what.

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